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Show WELL-KNOWH Ml MAY BE MURDERER New Developments in the "Onyx Girl". Case; Revelations Reve-lations Possible. By International News Service. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1. A new development de-velopment In the Investigation of the brutal murder of the woman known as Mrs. Grace Roberts, the beautiful artists' art-ists' model found dead in her apartment in the Wilton Saturday, Is predicted 'by detectives. The nature of this new development de-velopment by the police was not disclosed dis-closed further than that the net of circumstantial cir-cumstantial evidence' Is closing about a man well known both In this city and New York. Information in the possession of the detectives de-tectives points to a prominent Philadelphia Philadel-phia reformer and official as one of the brilliant coterie of friends with whom the "onyx girl" surrounded herself. Already the first sinister whisper of possible arrests has shaken Philadelphia society to its depths. The report that a j number of photographs of Philadelphia I and New York clubmen were found In the ! room whare the 22-year-old victim lay I was confirmed today. Detectives have I gone to Milford, Del., to bring back Mrs. .Roberts's colored maid, Eleanor, who is expected to shed light on the identity of many of her mistress visitors. According to employees of the Wilton apartments, a small but pretentious building, build-ing, among her admirers was a man known to the employees only as "bulldog," "bull-dog," a title they themselves bestowed on him. The "bulldog" until several weeks ago was a frequent caller at the . model's apartments. According to Rich-! Rich-! ard Benjamin, the janitor, he was of aggressive, ag-gressive, powerful physique, stocky and ; pugnacious. He always drove up to the . Wilton in a large seven-passenger touring tour-ing car and whistled up at the window before entering the place. It a shaIe was thrown up from the Roberts window he would enter. Otherwise Other-wise he would drive away at top speed. The "bulldog," in the opinion of the investigators, in-vestigators, is none other than a prominent promi-nent social reformer, whose activities in reform lines have greatly interested Philadelphia, A mysterious stranger, said to be a wealthy contractor from another city, was brought to the detective bureau at 4 o'clock this afternoon. He was released at fi o'clock. His connection with the case could not be learned. Immediately after release, lie was spirited away In a taxicab by friends. That a man of high intelligence commuted com-muted the crime is the conviction of the police. All the fingerprints found on the blood-stained blue silk pajamas in-which Mrs. Kober iis's lifeless body was clot lied and on the walls and furniture had been carefully blurred, so as to make recognition recogni-tion impossible. Among the model's effects wero found : a Chicago time table, which gave rise to I a theory that, one of the dead woman's out-of-town visitors might have been her assailant. This theory was strengthened by a girl friend, who reported that Mrs. Roberts had expressed fear of a visit of a friend I'rom Chicago. The maid. Kleanoi-, detectives expect, can tell of many gay parties In the privacy pri-vacy of the Poplar street apartments. Marie Collins, a girl whose apartments were on an upper floor of the same dwelling dwell-ing place, has enlightened Detective Captain Cap-tain Tate somewhat to that effect already. al-ready. The janitor of the building todav recalled re-called that Mrs. Roberts's apartment had been broken into a year ago. She reported re-ported only a few letters missing. Three months ago her mail box w;is rifled. |